Almost in trouble

[kilted in kleaveland]

My lady and I went to an outdoor concert tonight. Had several good comments and met a guy ( McKay ) who has a kilt ( for special occasions ).
MANY catcalls from the ladies. Even had FOUR ladies try to kilt check me right in front of my wife !!!! As complimented as I might be it wasn't worth my wife getting downright nasty ( these women underestimate my wife ). Somehow ( of course ) this is my fault. Isn't it funny that if I'd try this on a lady I'd be arrested but its OK to do to a guy?

[Roan Carter]

A little funny. The attention's cool but then it seems kinda unfair. I got an attempted kilt check a while back from a lady friend at the mall. Not really sure how to think about it, but oh well. I saved myself.

But you see now how incredibly fun kilt wearing can be, lol.

[beloitpiper]

Actaully, I don't think it's ok. Many women will think they are being cute or funny, but I take it seriously, and have had to theaten them with legal charges after they repeatedly tries to lift my kilt. I don't find it amusing, and I get very serious about it.

It's one thing to joke about "what's underneith" but when they are downright lewd and disrespectful, the fun stops.

[pbpersson]

Actaully, I don't think it's ok. Many women will think they are being cute or funny, but I take it seriously, and have had to theaten them with legal charges after they repeatedly tries to lift my kilt. I don't find it amusing, and I get very serious about it.

SO....how do they react? Do they think that men in kilts are somehow "asking for it" to happen to them?

They must assume that a guy in a kilt is out looking for that sort of attention....or something like that.

It seems so paradoxical that a women would think that it was okay to lift a skirt-like garment to see what is underneath. :confused:

[David Dalglish]

I had it happen to me at my golf club dinner when I was the captain, I did not think it was funny, & to be perfectly honest, downright embarrasing especially at a Black tie Function. If I had done it to a lady, at the dinner, I would have been classed a pervert, or arrested

[pbpersson]

I had it happen to me at my golf club dinner when I was the captain, I did not think it was funny, & to be perfectly honest, downright embarrasing especially at a Black tie Function. If I had done it to a lady, at the dinner, I would have been classed a pervert, or arrested

How did you react? What did you say? Was it a male or female who did it? Did you tell them they can go to jail for that?

See....I'm curious how the laws are written on this but I would think that they would be written to be gender neutral and in such a way that lifting a kilt would be the exact same thing as pulling your pants down in a public place.

Perhaps we should remind these people that lifting a kilt is just like pulling someone's pants down - there is no difference. Maybe they just need to grow up in my opinion and get a life.

[TimC]

YES!! Someone else that feels my pain....why is it that when a young "lady" gets all flirty wants to 'check under the hood', it's our fault?? We tell them "NO" and explain we have a girlfriend/wife and yet we're bound to receive the cold shoulder because of their actions? Honestly, can we help it if our legs that damn good in a kilt? :-)

-Tim

[Jimmy the Celt]

It's very curious that some women feel they can kilt-check a man, and be expected to laugh it off, or be tittilated perhaps. However, there is no question that if a man were to lift a woman's skirt, we risk being sued, arrested, or derided as a pervert (or all of the above).

It seems to me that if women want equal rights, we ought to be able to look up any lassie's skirt, or ask about her underwear without any consequence; but that is absurd. We do not treat women that way out of respect and propriety. So how is it different for a woman to treat a man that way?

The kilt does draw attention at times (though most don't seem to even notice) because kilted chaps are not a common sight today. But does the "novelty" of seeing a kilted bloke over ride the sense of respect and propriety that we should have for others? Apparently, some think so, but it doesn't seem right.

Having said that, I haven't been asked "the question" yet (being kilted less than a week), but a good response is to say something like, "I beg your pardon?" It may be fun to joke around a bit, and that's okay in some cases, but it seems rude to me to ask about whether or not you are wearing undergarments; afterall, when is the last time you asked a strange woman if they are wearing knickers? (If you were drunk it doesn't count )

So maybe next time you are in that situation, you should slap the girl on the *** and ask, "Are you wearing a thong?" [edit] I'm sure you all probably realize that was meant tongue in cheek; I think that illustrates the point well. [edit]

James

[Chris Webb]

Personally I love being 'kilt checked' and consider it one of the more enjoyable benefits of kilting ... as long as the kilt check is done from the back!! Seems to me that any man willing to wear a kilt, given how it is made, has to be comfortable with the possiblity that someone is going to see his ****. I've said it before, nothing looks more feminine than some guy slapping at the back of his kilt no matter what is lifting it up.

Now the front is a different matter.

Like it or not the rules for men and women are different ... it's those differences that make it so much fun to ....

Kilt On!

Chris Webb

(post edited prior to validation - Mike)

[Jimmy the Celt]

Personally I love being 'kilt checked' and consider it one of the more enjoyable benefits of kilting ... as long as the kilt check is done from the back!! Seems to me that any man willing to wear a kilt, given how it is made, has to be comfortable with the possiblity that someone is going to see his ****. I've said it before, nothing looks more feminine than some guy slapping at the back of his kilt no matter what is lifting it up.

Now the front is a different matter.

Like it or not the rules for men and women are different ... it's those differences that make it so much fun to ....

Kilt On!

Chris Webb

(post edited prior to validation - Mike)

In general, I agree with you. But it's just the idea (and I am by no means sexist) that the rules are so different. The whole issue of equal rights, (which I believe is one of the reaons women began wearing trousers) means exactly that: equal rights. And yet the same women who demanded an equal footing with men in the workplace and out cling to certain "safeguards" between men and women.

At any rate, there are probably going to be women I won't mind obliging with an answer. It will depend on the situation. I doona mind if a lass sees me ****; I wanted to illustrate the absurdity of the issue on the whole.

James